Hi everyone,
Today, I want to share something very special with you. My friend Joan passed this along and Marlene, also a special friend, posted the following in her blog. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT. I will be talking more about this in the future.
Share it with everyone in your circle and carry it in your heart. If we could each adopt the UBUNTU philosophy, practice it in our lives and be an example of it to others, we can create necessary transformation in the world. It begins with you and me, one person can make a difference. Let it begin with you simply by sharing this post today.
As Bill Clinton said we are 99.9 percent the same, yet most of us focus on the .1 percent that makes us feel different. We may have more money, better looks, live in a better place, but it is arrogance to think we are any better than any other human being on the planet. Read this and Watch this incredible video.
I think it will change your life for the better, I know it has changed mine.
UBUNTU
“An anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African
tribe found himself surrounded by children most days. So he
decided to play a little game with them. He managed to get
candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket.
at the foot of a tree.
Then he called the children and suggested they play the game.
When the anthropologist said “now”, the children had to run to
the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to
him/herself.
So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the
anthropologist said “now”, all of the children took each other by
the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the
same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily
munch away.
The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had
all run together when any one of them could have had the candy
all to themselves.
The children responded: “Ubuntu. How could any one of us be
happy if all the others were sad?”
Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up
as “I am what I am because of who we all are.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :
“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of
being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that
you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about
our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself,
and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for
your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as
just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are
connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you
do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”
